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Rev. Dr. Paul Edmondson is Head of Research and Knowledge and Director of the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of many books and articles about Shakespeare, including Shakespeare: Ideas in Profile (an overview of Shakespeare for the general reader), Twelfth Night: a guide to the text and its Theatrical Life, The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography and Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy (bot ...more

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	Shakespeare's Sonnets by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells 4.25 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shakespeare beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy 4.13 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shakespeare: An Introduction: Ideas in Profile 3.98 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography by Paul Edmondson (Editor), Stanley Wells (Editor), Katherine West Scheil (Contributor) 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shakespeare Bites Back by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shakespeare 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Finding Shakespeare's New Place: An archaeological biography by Paul Edmondson, Kevin Colls, William Mitchell 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Year of Shakespeare: Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival by Paul Edmondson (Editor), Paul Prescott (Editor), Erin Sullivan (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Handbooks, 6) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The rest of the sonnet is more straightforward. Metaphorically it says that beauty ('the summer's flower') is sweet even if it does not propagate itself ('Though to itself it only live and die'), but if it becomes infected it is worth no more than `The basest weed'. What is the tenor of the metaphor? And the couplet appears to be trying to make a link with the octave: `For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds. I Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds'. (This last line is found also in the anonymous play, attributed at least in part to Shakespeare, Edward III. Though proverbial in tone, it has not been found elsewhere.) But what exactly is the link? The poem struggles to give an impression of profundity but its excessive use of generalization and metaphor inhibits communication.”
― Paul Edmondson, Shakespeare's Sonnets

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“The last poem of the first group, beginning `O thou, my lovely boy', is not a strict sonnet, being a series of six rhyming pentameter couplets, as if the sonnet were entirely made up of conclusions.”
― Paul Edmondson, Shakespeare's Sonnets

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“One feature of Shakespeare's collection that differentiates it from all others is that the beloved, though frequently idealized in the first part, is nevertheless faulty: `for the first time in the entire history of the sonnet, the desired object is fl'awed' (Spiller, p. 156). This is true of both parts of the collection.”
― Paul Edmondson, Shakespeare's Sonnets

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